The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIII

[aimeeandbeatles]

Question: What does this mean? Its from an interview

"High school was great for me. I went to all five of them in Gainesville and did whatever I wanted. I moved out on my parents and was living with the guitar player in my band."

How'd he get away with that?

"My parents were getting divorced and I played them off against each other."

Nobody I asked could figure out what it meant.

P.S. The interview is not with T.P. Once everyones throughly confused Ill explain it

 

[Arakhor]

Whomever it was, heartlessly abusing your parents at a vulnerable time is hardly a topic of easy discussion, Aimee.

 

[Lord Baal]

Question: What does this mean? Its from an interview



Nobody I asked could figure out what it meant.

P.S. The interview is not with T.P. Once everyones throughly confused Ill explain it

It means whoever this is would do stuff like ask one parent for a bike, then when they refused say something like "but dad said he'd get me one." The mother would then get them a bike in order to not be seen as the "bad parent" by the child. Happens all the time in broken families. Hell, I'm pretty sure I would have done it, and my family isn't broken.

EDIT: Ha, beat you Cutlass!

 

[Cutlass]

It means he worked to get what he wanted by asking one parent for it and hinting that the other would give it to him. And if that didn't work, he'd try the same thing with the other parent.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Whomever it was, heartlessly abusing your parents at a vulnerable time is hardly a topic of easy discussion, Aimee.

It means whoever this is would do stuff like ask one parent for a bike, then when they refused say something like "but dad said he'd get me one." The mother would then get them a bike in order to not be seen as the "bad parent" by the child. Happens all the time in broken families. Hell, I'm pretty sure I would have done it, and my family isn't broken.

EDIT: Ha, beat you Cutlass!

It means he worked to get what he wanted by asking one parent for it and hinting that the other would give it to him. And if that didn't work, he'd try the same thing with the other parent.

That makes sense and I can just see the guy doing that

(P.S. It was one of the Heartbreakers. I said it wasn't T.P. )

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

What's the difference between an octave and a semi-tone (in music)?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

An octave is 12 (half)notes above, a semitone is 1 (half note).

 

[cardgame]

music jargon makes as much sense as a foreign language (that you haven't learned)

 

[Arakhor]

That's because music is a foreign language. If it hadn't been for those pesky Americans during the Second World War, we'd all be speaking Music!

 

[civplayah]

music jargon makes as much sense as a foreign language (that you haven't learned)

I love speaking in music!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Does somebody have a fairly large European map from about 1982? I dont need cities, just country borders. Thanks (Mostly west Germany, I dont need the eastern Europe)

 

[cardgame]

Does somebody have a fairly large European map from about 1982? I dont need cities, just country borders. Thanks (Mostly west Germany, I dont need the eastern Europe)

not very large, but

'twas all my Google-fu revealed to me.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That wont work too well, oh well. The countries I need are these (Im doing a map of something)

Belgium
Sweden
Netherlands
England
Scotland
Germany

Thanks anyways

 

[cardgame]

let me guess.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers European Tour?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

let me guess.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers European Tour?

LOL! Yeah, the Long After Dark one. I wanted to make a map of it.

November 30, 1982 Forest National, Brussels, Belgium
December 03, 1982 Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden
December 04, 1982 Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
December 07, 1982 Wembley Arena, London, England (with Dave Edmunds)
December 08, 1982 Manchester Apollo, Manchester, England
December 09, 1982 Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland
December 10, 1982 Coventry Apollo, Coventry, England
December 12, 1982 Brighton Conference Center, Brighton, England
December 14, 1982 Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
December 15, 1982 Musensaal, Mannheim, Germany
December 17, 1982 Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany
December 18, 1982 Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany
December 19, 1982 Metropol, Berlin, Germany
December 20, 1982 Statdhalle, Offenbach, Germany
December 21, 1982 Hemmerleinhalle, Nuernberg, Germany

 

[cardgame]

I think this will work

you can crop it to remove eastern europe, etc.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Thanks. I'll just remove the colors too

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

OK, I decolored it. Does it look ok? (I notice the borders turned out a little messy.)

Spoiler :

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Question: This book I has mentions a "tit" which is a kind of bird. But when I googled it I got a bunch of porn sites. What is a tit?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

It's a type of bird.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_(bird)

So is a booby

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby

There's also a Tits group in maths, named after Jacques Tits who discovered them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tits_group